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Minimally, any process that interacts with VSS to create and manage shadow copies and shadow copy sets of one or more volumes.

Typically, a requester manages shadow copies to support some other functionality, such as backup and restore operations and disk mirroring. See also shadow copy, shadow copy set.

restore method

A specification of the restore process method. It controls such issues as whether files are overwritten on restore. If a restore method setting is in conflict with those of the restore target, then the restore target takes precedence. See also restore target.

restore target

Under VSS, a restore target is a specification of how a requester should restore a file, for example, if it should overwrite existing files.